Sentence examples for materialistic vision from inspiring English sources
At first, people were almost mournful, recalling her sexy, materialistic vision for the magazine.
They were accused of neglecting the sacraments for ceaseless prayer and of teaching a materialistic vision of God.
Suspecting that the Roman Academy and its founder, the Italian humanist Julius Pomponius Laetus, were opposing Christian ideals and endorsing a materialistic vision of life inspired by an admiration for the ancient world, Paul dissolved the academy and arrested its members in February 1468, subjecting one of its leading humanists, Bartolomeo Platina, to torture on additional charges of conspiracy.
The immigrants of 1890-1910 arrivedrined in a milieu that was "in many ways utterly dissociated from the rest of America," yet they had a vision — a rather materialistic one, but still a vision — of what life in America could be if they worked hard enough; and they did work, and they did aspire to something more than they had; and they did get out of the slums.
One still leaves the theater howling at Mr. Guare's vision of losers at sea in a materialistic culture, but the howls are less of laughter than of pain.
He complained that Italy's cities had been expanding "incoherently for uniquely selfish goals, materialistic, speculative, without a real plan coming from a general vision of life".
Perhaps to Donal she's as much a vision of America — attractive, callow, materialistic — as she is a person.
They also feared it would spell the end of Labour's vision of a "cradle to grave" welfare state, as working class people embraced a more materialistic, Thatcherite way of life.
To his failing, deepening vision, the image of flowers, rippling water and reflected clouds was a trip to an alternative universe, one at once cosmic and materialistic.
